UPS & USPS Shipping

Hello,

I am dealing with 4 dropshippers 3 of them use UPS and 1 uses USPS.

My question is when a customer purchases and item that can only be shipped by USPS and they click go to checkout they see UPS & USPS then they are asked to choose their shipping method how will they know to select USPS shipping?

Is there a way to setup my cart for that 1 dropshippers products that uses USPS shipping?

Thanks!
cameo

What will happen if a customer buys 5 items and both ups and usps are involved?

kobra:

What will happen if a customer buys 5 items and both ups and usps are involved?

Hmmm dunno didn't think about that. Well it looks like I'll have to scratch that and think of something else to do.

Thanks for bringing that to my attention.

cameo

You could test the cart to see if it includes 1 or more items from the manufacturer that only ships USPS and if so, disable UPS ...

Are you using manufacturers_id for the 4 different dropshippers or have you something in the products table that can be tested for to check if any Product is from this 1 dropshipper?

Ajeh:

You could test the cart to see if it includes 1 or more items from the manufacturer that only ships USPS and if so, disable UPS ...

Are you using manufacturers_id for the 4 different dropshippers or have you something in the products table that can be tested for to check if any Product is from this 1 dropshipper?

I just now registered for USPS after I finish all the steps for "How to setup USPS shipping module tutorial" I will test the cart and do what you said in your first paragraph above.

In your second paragraph, yes I'm using manufacturers_id's for the 4 different dropshippers plus the 1 that uses USPS.

Thanks, Linda!

cameo

You can use the function $_SESSION['cart']->in_cart_check('manufacturers_id','XX');

where XX is the manufacturers_id to see if 1 or more is in the cart and if so, set the $this->enabled to false in the UPS shipping module ...

Ajeh:

You can use the function $_SESSION['cart']->in_cart_check('manufacturers_id','XX');

where XX is the manufacturers_id to see if 1 or more is in the cart and if so, set the $this->enabled to false in the UPS shipping module ...

I'm kind of a newbie, so where would I go to find and apply the below?

function $_SESSION['cart']->in_cart_check('manufacturers_id','XX');

Thanks!
cameo

You need to customize the shipping module:
/includes/modules/shipping/ups.php

You can use this function to test how many products are in the cart from this manufacturer and if 1 or more are in the cart, then you can disable the UPS shipping module ...

Ajeh:

You need to customize the shipping module:
/includes/modules/shipping/ups.php

You can use this function to test how many products are in the cart from this manufacturer and if 1 or more are in the cart, then you can disable the UPS shipping module ...

Ok, will do I guess I should say will try!:smile:

Thank you Linda!
cameo

cameo:

Ok, will do I guess I should say will try!:smile:

Thank you Linda!
cameo

Hi Linda,

It's me again. I think Im going to just use zone rates like you showed me how to do in a previous post that I posted. This is getting too hard and confusing for me to do, but I really appreciate all your help.

Thanks!

cameo

You can customize UPS shipping module so that if manufacturers_id 3 has 1 or more products in the cart that UPS will be disabled or turned off by editing the code:
/includes/modules/shipping/ups.php

    // disable only when entire cart is free shipping
    if (zen_get_shipping_enabled($this->code)) {
      $this->enabled = ((MODULE_SHIPPING_UPS_STATUS == 'True') ? true : false);
    }

[B]// bof: turn off UPS if manufacturers_id 3 has 1 or more products in the cart
    global $cart;
    if (!IS_ADMIN_FLAG && $_SESSION['cart']->in_cart_check('manufacturers_id', '3') > 0) {
      $this->enabled = false;
    }
// eof: turn off UPS if manufacturers_id 3 has 1 or more products in the cart
[/B]
    if ( ($this->enabled == true) && ((int)MODULE_SHIPPING_UPS_ZONE > 0) ) {

see if that helps ... :smile:

Ok, I'll try it.

Thanks again!

cameo